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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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1,182 in 1840—884 in 1900Weston, 2,680 in 1800—840 in 1900Wethersfield, 3,992 in 1800—2,637 m I9°°Willington, 1,278 in 1800—885 in 1900Wilton, 1,728 in 1810—1,598 in 1900Wolcott, 948 in 1800—581 in 1900Woodbridge, 2,198 in 1800—852 in 1900Woodstock, 2,463 in 1800—2,095 ^n 19°° Not all of the country towns that aredwindling in population are also losing inwealth and comfort. The contrary is trueof some of them. In not a few cases thedeparting small farmers have been replacedby people who earn fortunes in the city tospend them in the country. They are usu-ally leaders in all movements for modernsocial conveniences, as water-works, sewers,etc. There is something baronial in thisnew development — the substitution of thegreat estate, with its hired retainers, for theolder order in which the people were allabout equal in wealth — or in poverty, asthe case may have been. When the StateAgricultural College gets a request from one WHATS THE MATTER WITH CONNECTICUT? 275
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The Connecticut Capitol, at Hartford, memorial arch on the left of these big country show-places for an ex-pert worker of some sort, it goes withoutsaying that his first qualification must bethe ability to keep things as neat as a pin.He may or may not be a good business manas well, and able to make his department ofthe estate earn its way; that is a secondaryconsideration. His function is not to earnmoney, but to spend it. The Rise of the Cities Coincident with the decline of the countrytowns the principal cities have risen, inwealth and population, sufficiently to insurethe State a steady growth as a whole. Thechief cities, in order of population, are: These ten cities have considerably morethan one-half of the population of the State,but have only twenty representatives in thelower house of the Legislature, as against235 representatives from the smaller citiesand country towns that contain the minorityof the States inhabitants. Indeed, so marked is the contrast betweenthe bustling,

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